was a Japanese

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

architect,

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, and architectural scholar. He is noted for his application of methods of scientific research to the study of architecture and urban planning. Nishiyama served as a professor at

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for over 25 years, and produced a number of seminal writings on

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. The Uzo Nishiyama Memorial Library in

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, which specializes in works relating to architecture and urban planning, is named after Nishiyama.

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20th-century Japanese architects Modernist architects Japanese urban planners Architectural theoreticians 1911 births 1994 deaths People from Osaka Kyoto University alumni Academic staff of Kyoto University {{Japan-bio-stub